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‘Soon after my wife and I moved into our new house we began to notice strange things happening. Objects would go missing when they shouldn’t. One time I had bought a large pack of AA batteries that I’m positive I sat on the coffee table. My nephew was coming over and he loved to play X-Box so I had bought them especially for that. We discovered that the batteries had disappeared, and since he was coming over the next day, we began a frantic search of the house. I had heard stories about people who asked the little people to return things that had gone missing so I jokingly said ‘good people please return the batteries to us. We need them for tomorrow.’ I didn’t really expect anything to happen. I was just joking with my wife as we searched. Our search turned up nothing so I resigned myself to having to get up early the next day to pick up a new pack. Getting up the next morning, however, I found the pack of batteries lying on the coffee table where I remember putting them. They were the only things on the table and in plain sight. There was no way both my wife and I missed them in our search. I asked my wife where she’d found them, but she wasn’t the one who put them there. No one else has access to our house. Since that day, every time something went missing I’d ask the ‘lil people’ to please return it. More often than not whatever I asked for would turn up within a day or two in an obvious place where it would be easily noticed.’